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    The Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) was a communist guerrilla army that resisted the Japanese occupation of Malaya from 1941 to 1945 in World...
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    guerrilla war against the Japanese occupation of Malaya. Many MNLA fighters were former members of the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) which had been...
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    both the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army and the Malayan National Liberation Army. The party led resistance efforts against the Japanese occupation...
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    the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA), a communist guerrilla army previously trained, armed and funded by the British to fight against Japan during...
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    Lee Meng (category Malaysian people of Cantonese descent)
    the Japanese occupation of Malaya as a member of the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) and later joined the Malayan National Liberation Army during...
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    Chin Peng (category Malaysian people of Chinese descent)
    Liberation Army (MNLA). During World War II, he fought as an anti-colonialist guerrilla in the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army against the Japanese occupation...
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  • was a prominent member of the Malayan Communist Party.: 109  He was a member of the Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA)'s Central Military Committee...
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    over its ties to the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) and Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army. In his post-war autobiography, Yaacob claimed to have secretly...
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  • Lai Teck (category Hoa people)
    1901–1947) was a leader of the Communist Party of Malaya and Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army. A person of mixed Sino-Vietnamese descent, prior to his...
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    Tunku Abdul Rahman (category People of the Malayan Emergency)
    the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army. On 19 August, the surrender of the Japanese Army had become common knowledge in Alor Setar. With the Japanese surrender...
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    force was dubbed the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) and began sabotage and ambushes against the Japanese. The Japanese responded with reprisals...
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  • involvement in the Malayan Emergency lasted 13 years, between 1950 and 1963, with army, air force and naval units serving. The Malayan Emergency (Anti-British National...
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  • Rashid Maidin (category Malaysian people of Malay descent)
    organised armed resistance via the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA). At the end of the Anti-Japanese war, he met Abdullah CD. After the return...
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    The Malayan campaign, referred to by Japanese sources as the Malay Operation (馬来作戦, Maree Sakusen), was a military campaign fought by Allied and Axis...
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    omnipotence. The rise of the MCP-led Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) as the main resistance against the Japanese during their period of occupation...
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    Abdullah CD (category Thai people of Malay descent)
    Malay labour movement and was elected as the vice-president of the Pan-Malayan Federation of Trade Unions (PMFTU). Not long before the declaration of...
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  • of numerous anti-Japanese movements that reflected the prevailing local resentment of the time. The Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) was a...
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  • R. G. Balan (category Malaysian people of Indian descent)
    Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army. He worked underground in Tapah-Kampar area as a Communist Party of Malaya's Tamil publicist during the Japanese occupation...
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    period between the Japanese Emperor's announcement and the arrival of Allied forces in Malaya, the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army focused its efforts...
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    The Malayan Peoples' Socialist Front (Malay: Barisan Sosialis Rakyat Malaya) or better known as Socialist Front (SF) or Barisan Sosialis (BS) was a left-wing...
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    officials at Kuala Lumpur said pilots had radioed that members of the Japanese Red Army (JRA) had hijacked the plane. In 1996, while reporting about the hijacking...
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    guerrilla fighter of the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army, was appointed as an Officer for his role in fighting against the Japanese occupation of Malaya...
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    with the Malayan Communist Party and the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army. These led to the disbandment of KMM and establishment of the Malayan Volunteer...
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  • Mokhtaruddin Lasso (category Malaysian people of Malay descent)
    Mokhtaruddin Lasso (1915–1951) was a Sumatran-born Malayan independent guerrilla, a former anti-Japanese rebel during World War II who later became one of...
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    eradicating colonialism, establishing a united independent and democratic Malayan nation comprising the Federation of Malaya and Singapore and introducing...
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    representatives from the British government, Singaporean government, and the Malayan Federal government. The post-war conditions in Singapore were harsh for...
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    insurgency in Malaysia (1968–1989). It was signed and ratified by the Malayan Communist Party (MCP), and the Malaysian and Thailand governments at the...
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    was occupied by Japan in 1942 through 1945. The Malayan Communist Party became the backbone of the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army. [citation needed]...
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    party's members. In isolation, the Communists formed the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA). Their first arms and equipment were either donated...
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    tactics used by the Malayan National Liberation Army during the Malayan Emergency. Meanwhile, the North Kalimantan People's Army was formed by Bong Kee...
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